Posts Tagged ‘US’
What Is Progress?
I first saw the Manhattan skyline in the year 2002, and since then, have had an ongoing romance with the city of New York. If I can recall, my initial sense was of having penetrated the magical world of cinema, and to have become part of it. As I walked through the streets lined […]
Filed under: Socio-Economic, Terrorism, Travel | 11 Comments
Tags: Guggenheim, Manhattan, New York, Subway, Tino Sehgal, US
From DXB with Love
She grabs my inner clothing (you know what I mean), yanks at it and releases me with a jerk. Her clear gloves move on before I know it, and they are unrelenting. Let me say, though, that the hands may shift, but the expression remains the same – that of complete ennui. At the end […]
Filed under: Satire, Terrorism, Travel | 9 Comments
Tags: Airport screening, Airport security, Dubai Airport, Pakistan, US
The World’s Longest Revolution
[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=pakistan+women+protest&iid=848492″ src=”7/c/d/7/Pakistani_Journalists_Protest_478f.jpg?adImageId=8762070&imageId=848492″ width=”380″ height=”253″ /] Not too long ago, I was at a media event. As most media events go, unless the occasion has been organised to comment on women in the profession, they are usually male-dominated with a smattering of women present. Here we had about half a dozen men and, […]
Filed under: Media, Social Issues, Women | 14 Comments
Tags: BBC, Dawn, Pakistan, Pakistani news, uks, US, Women, women in media, women rights
Sign of the Times
[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=president+barack+obama&iid=7349027″ src=”f/2/a/f/OBAMA_af7d.JPG?adImageId=8298547&imageId=7349027″ width=”380″ height=”472″ /] Even though the phrase is repeated ad nauseum, Pakistanis seem to be more annoyed than usual on hearing US leaders urge Pakistan to ‘do more’. The Daily Times on Sunday has United States President Barack Obama saying to CBS News that ‘Pakistan must help US against Qaeda.’ […]
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Taliban, Terrorism, US-Pakistan relations | 14 Comments
Tags: Afghan Taliban, Al qaeda, Blackwater, Drone attacks, Guardian, Mustafa Qadri, Obama, Pakistan, Pankaj Mishra, Quetta, Quetta Shura, Taliban, United States, US, Xe
Army of Frankensteins
At least 40 people were killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi yesterday. Maybe because the attack targeted Muslim worshippers gathered for what is in the Islamic cultural of the subcontinent the week’s most important namaz many reacted by declaring that this CANNOT have been done by Pakistanis. For whatever reason, it is increasingly the […]
Filed under: Politics, Swat Offensive, Taliban, Terrorism, Waziristan Offensive | 42 Comments
Tags: 9/11, fidayeen, India, Israel, Pakistan army, Pakistan mosque blast, Rawalpindi attack, Rawalpindi blast, suicide attack, Taliban, US
Proxy Wars
[picapp align=”none” wrap=”false” link=”term=US+forces+afghanistan+border&iid=3005760″ src=”7/a/b/8/US_And_Afghan_7188.jpg?adImageId=7695196&imageId=3005760″ width=”500″ height=”334″ /] The director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta has been in Pakistan. He met President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Chief of Army Staff, Ashfaq Kayani and ISI head, Ahmed Shuja Pasha. According to the Daily Times, ‘Panetta praised the Pakistan […]
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Swat Offensive, Terrorism, US-Pakistan relations, Waziristan Offensive | 18 Comments
Tags: Afghan Taliban, Afghan Taliban Shura, Afghanistan, AfPak, Karachi, Leon Panetta, Mullah omar, NATO, Obama, Pakistan, Taliban, United States, US, Waziristan
Deny Everything
When I got in to work at 6 am yesterday morning, our overnight anchorperson complained that it was a slow news day. “Nothing’s going on. We’ve been running the same headlines all night; just changing the order around,” he yawned. I immediately responded by saying that he shouldn’t get used to it, as it was […]
Filed under: Politics, Satire, Terrorism, Uncategorized, Waziristan Offensive | 21 Comments
Tags: Blackwater, Gilani, India, Kayani, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Peshawar blast, Taliban, Terrorism, US, Zardari
